December Monster Poll - Results

Hey Critical Crew!

Thanks so much for all the voting! These are your 5 monsters for December's upcoming "Terrors of the Tundra":

Akhlut

A creature emerges from the water in a great wave of water and flying ice, it lets out a combination of a howl and a clicking sound, one that causes your blood to run cold.

• A shapeshifter that takes the form of an orca, wolf, or a hybridization of both.
• Vicious, territorial, and dangerous.
• Attacks creatures near the edge of water, has a furious appetite.

Gnoph-keh

A roar echoes across the snowy wastes, looking in its direction, you see a massive bear-like creature rushing towards you, breathing forth a swirling vortex of ice and snow. Your blood runs cold as the creature approaches, and the freezing cold somehow becomes even colder.

• Six-limbed bear-like creature with a singular facial horn.
• Able to summon blizzards and drop temperatures to supernatural cold.
• Cannibalistic and extremely predatory and war-like. Can regain hit points by eating the dead.

Ijiraq

You see something out of the corner of your eye, turning back, nothing is there… but you could have sworn you saw some sort of humanoid creature with massive antlers growing from its head… and red eyes that bored into your soul.

• A shapeshifting creature.
• Fond of stealing and abandoning children in the cold to die from exposure.
• The Ijiraq has red eyes, visibile regardless of the form the creature has taken.
• Sometimes helpful, sometimes fataly deceptive,
• Capable of creeping just out of eye view, appearing for a moment before vanishing.
• Formed from the souls and bodies of those trapped between two planes.
• The region surrounding their lairs is enchanted to cause any who walk their to become lost in the cold

Qallupilluit

You spy a mother rushing along the ice, her child screaming in a amautik slung over her back. The mother rushes to the water, turning back for a moment before diving in with the child. To your horror, the face presented is piscine and slimy, disgusing in the extreme… that was most certainly not the child’s mother.

• An aquatic creature that kidnaps and drowns children.
• Capable of grabbing and restraining small creatures within their amautiks.
• Sneaky ambushers, that leap from the water to attack their foes.

Tupilaq

A horrible creature composed of the bone and flesh of dozens of creatures falls before you, your blade cleaving its head clean from its body. To your horror, the creature stands once more, but moves away from you, rushing in a straight line for some unknown destination…. It is clear when it reaches wherever it is going, someone is going to die…

• A constructed undead formed from the body parts of many animals and brought to life with a profane ritual.
• Seeks a singular target specified by its creator, if defeated, the tupilaq is revived, and returns to kill its creator.
• Once a tupilaq has been defeated and set upon its creator, the creator can only defeat the tupilaq if they confess its horrid creation in public.

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- Dillon